AROUND SPORTS: Updates on colleges, tennis and television

Published 6:30 am, Friday, February 22, 2008

TELEVISION

Gipp-exhumation ruling for relatives

ESPN must provide the relatives of
George Gipp
with any materials it has related to the exhumation of the Notre Dame halfback's body, according to a ruling in a lawsuit stemming from the exhumation.

The remains of the football star, who died in 1920 of pneumonia, were dug up Oct. 4 for DNA testing to determine whether he had fathered his girlfriend's child. The results were negative.

ESPN crews recorded the exhumation for a planned newsmagazine program.

Karl Gipp, who says he and George Gipp are first cousins once removed, and another cousin, Ron Gipp, filed the suit in November in Houghton County (Mich.) Circuit Court. In seeking damages of more than $25,000, they accuse the defendants of negligence, contending that the remains of the player's sister, Bertha Isabelle Gipp Martin, were disturbed because workers initially dug in the wrong spot. She was buried next to her brother.

COLLEGES

Kansas State AD to take Big 12 job

Kansas State athletic director
Tim Weiser
is leaving the school to become the deputy commissioner of the Big 12 Conference.

WINTER SPORTS

Austrians 1-2 in super giant slalom

Christoph Gruber
led a 1-2 Austrian finish in a World Cup super giant slalom on the same course that will host the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia.

Gruber won for the fourth time on the World Cup circuit, finishing in 1 minute, 26.60 seconds. Hannes Reichelt was 0.03 seconds behind, followed by Slovenia's Ales Gorza in 1:26.71.